The LCD TV Association, a global non-profit, marketing trade association ‘formed to help the entire LCD supply chain, retail channel and consumers’ has announced its new GreenTV initiative which, it hopes, will serve to reduce the power consumption of LCD TV units by at least 30% and result in LCD …
We’ve been here before, of course, what with Sony’s Stan Glasgow indicating, back in March, that talks between Microsoft and Sony were underway with respect to developing a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 – something that was consequently denied in a somewhat unequivocal fashion by Aaron Greenberg (see …
Creative Labs have now admitted that it has previously ‘exaggerated’ the storage capacities of its MP3 players, hopefully bringing to end a class action (specifically Case No CV 05 3375) as filed by Vibhu Talwar and Patrick Finkelstein in United States District Court, Central District of California and leaving Creative …
Following on from our post last week regarding the impending availability of Windows XP Service Pack 3 we can now report that XP SP3 is in the process of being made available via the Microsoft Download Center and via Windows Update.
According to a report published in the Chinese-language Commercial Times, the Taipei-based Foxconn Electronics – the manufacturer responsible for building Apple’s iPod range and designated manufacturer of Apple’s current and up and coming 3G iPhone models – has been informed by Apple to expect to ship between 24-25 million 3G …
MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, has today announced the beta launch of its MySpace Karaoke service, powered by kSolo, which will allow users to sing along, record and share up to ten licensed tracks with the MySpace community with just a microphone.
According to Reuters, the company behind the enormously popular Flip Video YouTube/Blogging camcorder, Pure Digital Technology, is facing a patent suit in relation to the camcorders image compression software which, according to New York company Advanced Video Technologies, they hold the patent for and has been used without consent.
Whilst its well known that a 3G version of Apple’s iPhone is due to be made available in the future speculation concerning the release date of the 3G iPhone is sure to become an increasingly hotly debated topic thanks to the Wall Street Journal’s much respected technology guru Walt Mossberg …
The onslaught of pink gadgetry shows no signs of abating any time soon and, in a bid to cash in on the pink revolution expand consumer choice, LG have announced a new pink version of their hugely popular Viewty.
According to reports surfacing today the total cost to Toshiba resulting from the failure of its HD DVD format could hit Toshiba in the pocket to the tune of around ¥100 Billion (approximately $986 / £486 / €633 million).
Like many tech sites, we’ve tried our utmost to say up to date with the constant, ceaselessly contradictory speculation as to whether Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is going to get a Blu-ray player following the demise of the HD-DVD format – well now we have our answer (which suggests that someone …
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